Halfway Through the Coates Golf Championship...

Just earlier than the second round insurance of the LPGA's new Coates Golf Championship ended Thursday -- sure, this occasion runs Wednesday through Saturday -- Terry Gannon told co-anchor Judy Rankin that he became predicting Ha Na Jang might be leading with the aid of the stop of the day, even though Jang was simplest multiple holes into her spherical.

As it seems, he changed into correct. Although several gamers will have to complete the second round this morning, no person is going to trap Jang for the 36-hollow lead. (The photograph comes from this LPGA.Com article approximately remaining year's Q-School. The photo covered on the LPGA's 2nd round update web page doesn't display her face as in reality.) Stacy Lewis, who led at the stop of insurance, is now a complete 4 shots lower back of the Korean rookie.

Frost has brought on a few morning delays within the first two rounds. According to the update page:

For the ones gamers not completing their rounds on Thursday, the resumption of round will begin at 7:30 a.M. On Friday morning.

Projected beginning times for spherical three will begin at 10:30 a.M off of the first and tenth tees.

When the 120-player field is cut to 70 and ties today, the tournament should get back on schedule pretty easily.

While Jang sits atop the leaderboard at -12, the group behind her are ordinarily names you should recognize.

• As mentioned earlier, Stacy Lewis is at -8.
• Lydia Ko, now sporting contacts, sits at -7 with Azahara Munoz and Angela Stanford.
• Na Yeon Choi and Jessica Korda are at -6.
• Cristie Kerr, Mi Hyang Lee (2014 Mizuno Classic winner), Mirim Lee (2-win rookie from 2014), Pernilla Lindberg and So Yeon Ryu are at -4.
• Alena Sharp and Lexi Thompson are at -3.

There's a large group at -2 that includes Michelle Wie and Ai Miyazato... and Paula Creamer, who made a hole-in-one on the 6th hole, which resembles the 16th at Augusta. The Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club has a number of holes designed to look like famous holes from Augusta National, Royal Troon and St. Andrews, which makes for some interesting viewing.

GC isn't showing live coverage on Friday, which I suppose is okay because the leaders would be going off too late to make the broadcast window anyway. Instead, the third-round coverage will be broadcast from 8-10pm ET tonight. It looks like Saturday's coverage is going to be another live broadcast though, starting at 3pm ET.

So a ways this new match has made for a quite correct show. It looks to be a very good weekend as nicely.